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Gary Sayers
Film Handler

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From: Worksop, UK
Registered: Aug 2016

posted December 31, 2017 11:14 AM

Here's a link to a 3 part blog that details the recovery of images (and possibly short clips) from a 16mm print of a 'missing' 1968 BBC Morecambe and Wise show.

The method and results are nothing short of amazing!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2017-12-morecambe-wise-video-film-archive-restoration

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Brian Fretwell
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From: London, UK
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posted January 01, 2018 04:30 AM

Thankfully the sound has been found as an off air recording from an Australian broadcast, so if the can get the pictures back they can combine them.

I wonder if this is the same technique they have used to read papyrus scrolls that have been cut up and re-used to make masks as in reported in recent news. It seems very similar to me.

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Terry Sills
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From: Weymouth,Dorset,England
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posted January 01, 2018 05:21 AM

Thanks Gary for that post. Little short of miraculous. The advances of technology are a wonder to behold and it seems that almost nothing is impossible these days.

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Mark Mander
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posted January 01, 2018 06:00 AM

Wow an incredible amount of work to put that together,the technology is amazing so gives hope for other films to be pieced back together given the same circumstances,Mark

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Maurice Leakey
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
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posted January 01, 2018 06:18 AM

So there's no need to bin that vinegar print, but only if it would be worth the effort. Congratulations to all involved.

Regarding the comment that Morecombe & Wise would not renew their ITV contract in 1968 because they wanted their programmes in colour and at that time only BBC2 was in colour.

I always understood that when colour was on the horizon American TV shows were already filming in colour to await the great day. Also, Lew Grade, who exported at lot of his shows also filmed in colour, knowing full well that he could show them in black & white, and eventually colour when the time came.

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Dave Groves
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From: Southend on Sea, Essex, UK
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posted January 01, 2018 06:51 AM

What an astonishing piece of work.

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Brian Fretwell
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: London, UK
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posted January 01, 2018 09:05 AM

I have seen on another forum that they only have funding for recovering the first 8-10 minutes of this at present. The rest will be kept refrigerated until they have more funds.

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted January 02, 2018 02:07 PM

Amazing!!

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